Breathe HR

Breathe is a UK-headquartered cloud HRIS designed for small and midsize businesses, covering employee records, holiday and sickness tracking, performance, documents, expenses, and rota scheduling. The Breathe API is a REST/JSON service that exposes employee, absence, account, and related HR resources for integration with payroll, identity, and analytics tools. Authentication uses a per-account API key passed in the X-API-KEY header against a production base URL of https://api.breathehr.com/v1 with a sandbox available at https://api.sandbox.breathehr.com/v1.

Breathe HR publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Absences API, Account API, Employees API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include HR, HRIS, Human Resources, Employee Management, and Absence Management.

Breathe HR’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, pricing, signup flow, support, and 6 more developer resources.

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29.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessSelf serve

6 APIs

HRHRISHuman ResourcesEmployee ManagementAbsence ManagementHoliday TrackingSMBUK

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 29.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.4 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 6.5 / 20

Commercial Clarity 2.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 6

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Signup

Signup

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Knowledge Base

Knowledge Base

Source (apis.yml)

aid: breathe-hr
name: Breathe HR
description: Breathe is a UK-headquartered cloud HRIS designed for small and midsize businesses, covering employee records,
  holiday and sickness tracking, performance, documents, expenses, and rota scheduling. The Breathe API is a REST/JSON service
  that exposes employee, absence, account, and related HR resources for integration with payroll, identity, and analytics
  tools. Authentication uses a per-account API key passed in the X-API-KEY header against a production base URL of https://api.breathehr.com/v1
  with a sandbox available at https://api.sandbox.breathehr.com/v1.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/breathe-hr.png
tags:
- HR
- HRIS
- Human Resources
- Employee Management
- Absence Management
- Holiday Tracking
- SMB
- UK
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/breathe-hr/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-05-11'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: breathe-hr:rest-api
  name: Breathe HR REST API
  description: JSON REST API for managing employees, absences, holidays, sick leaves, accounts, and related HR records inside
    Breathe. Calls require an X-API-KEY header containing the account-level token generated from the Breathe admin under Configure
    > API Settings.
  humanURL: https://developer.breathehr.com/
  baseURL: https://api.breathehr.com/v1
  tags:
  - HR
  - Employees
  - Absences
  - Holidays
  - Accounts
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.breathehr.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.breathehr.com/documentation/getting_started
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.breathehr.com/documentation/authenticating
  - type: Sandbox Base URL
    url: https://api.sandbox.breathehr.com/v1
- aid: breathe-hr:breathe-hr-absences-api
  name: Breathe HR Absences API
  description: The Absences API from Breathe HR — 2 operation(s) for absences.
  humanURL: https://developer.breathehr.com/
  baseURL: https://api.breathehr.com/v1
  tags:
  - Absences
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/breathe-hr-absences-api-openapi.yml
- aid: breathe-hr:breathe-hr-account-api
  name: Breathe HR Account API
  description: The Account API from Breathe HR — 1 operation(s) for account.
  humanURL: https://developer.breathehr.com/
  baseURL: https://api.breathehr.com/v1
  tags:
  - Account
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/breathe-hr-account-api-openapi.yml
- aid: breathe-hr:breathe-hr-employees-api
  name: Breathe HR Employees API
  description: The Employees API from Breathe HR — 2 operation(s) for employees.
  humanURL: https://developer.breathehr.com/
  baseURL: https://api.breathehr.com/v1
  tags:
  - Employees
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/breathe-hr-employees-api-openapi.yml
- aid: breathe-hr:breathe-hr-holidays-api
  name: Breathe HR Holidays API
  description: The Holidays API from Breathe HR — 2 operation(s) for holidays.
  humanURL: https://developer.breathehr.com/
  baseURL: https://api.breathehr.com/v1
  tags:
  - Holidays
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/breathe-hr-holidays-api-openapi.yml
- aid: breathe-hr:breathe-hr-sicknesses-api
  name: Breathe HR Sicknesses API
  description: The Sicknesses API from Breathe HR — 2 operation(s) for sicknesses.
  humanURL: https://developer.breathehr.com/
  baseURL: https://api.breathehr.com/v1
  tags:
  - Sicknesses
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/breathe-hr-sicknesses-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/breathe-hr-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/breathe-hr-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/breathe-hr-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.breathehr.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.breathehr.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.breathehr.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.breathehr.com/en-gb/pricing
- type: Signup
  url: https://www.breathehr.com/en-gb/free-trial
- type: Knowledge Base
  url: https://intercom.help/breathehr/en
- type: Support
  url: mailto:support@breathehr.com
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/breathehr
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Breathe HR

Kin Score

APIs 6

Breathe HR REST API

Breathe HR Absences API

Breathe HR Account API

Breathe HR Employees API

Breathe HR Holidays API

Breathe HR Sicknesses API

Open Collections 1

Breathe HR REST API

Security Posture 2

Breathe Hr Authentication

Breathe Hr Domain Security

Agentic Access 1

Breathe Hr Agentic Access

Resources